Bradley Cooper Got Kind of Attached to His Fake American Sniper Baby

Bradley Cooper appeared on The Ellen Show yesterday, presumably to promote his new movie Burnt, though he ended up spending his time being incredibly charming remembering the good old days of American Sniper.

First of all, apparently Clint Eastwood is a squirrel whisperer, which is fascinating to think about, considering the ways he seems to reject anything that would make you go Aww, what a sweet old man. But I'll be damned if establishing a relationship with a squirrel community doesn't make you a cute old man. Then they both enthusiastically agree that Eastwood is really funny, which, um, I'll just take your word for it.

Ellen then brings up the fake baby in American Sniper, which was something previously kinda talked about behind closed doors, but I guess is something we can now outwardly call out, in Ellen's words, as "so not a baby." Ellen went for the jugular on this subject, having brought it up with Sienna Miller a week earlier, and now really forcing Cooper to answer for what he's done, particularly with manipulating the hand of the plastic baby like a very unskilled puppet master. While the prior explanation was that both real babies became unavailable the day of shooting, apparently the real truth is that Clint Eastwood thinks real babies are too "unpredictable" so a fake one would save time. Aww, what a sweet old man?

Cooper's got a good sense of humor about it, but then turns tender, explaining that he came to love "that plastic thing." "Look at that!" he says, pointing at the screen, "He cares for that thing."

Well, calling your baby a thing probably isn't exactly the best way to love it, but hey, way to have a sense of humor about it. Always the gentleman, Bradley Cooper.